Today I give my annual talk at the elementary school about how the judicial system works. We conclude the talk with a mock trial concerning the untimely death of Humpty Dumpty. Was it an accident or was it murder? For legal minded nerds and…
Continue reading →Screencast Bonanza
Is it just me or does it seem lots of smart people are starting to publish screencasts? Eddie Smith did his first at Practically Efficient on Markdown and Notational Velocity. Yuvi Zalkow did an epic job of Scrivener from his point of view. I…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 47 – Workflows with Merlin 2.0
Mac Power Users Episode 46 is available for download. This one is a 2.5 hour marathon session with Merlin Mann and even better than Merlin’s first workflow episode (that was awesome). Merlin bills this recent podcast as the nerdiest interview ever and it delivers.…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Me
Here is a twist. My friend Josh Barrett, who publishes TabletLegal asked to see my home screen.
Continue reading →Home Screens – David Wain
Even after publishing MacSparky.com for 4 years, part of me still sometimes forgets that other people read it. So you can imagine my surprise when I heard from writer, director, and actor David Wain (twitter and IMDb). You can learn a lot more about…
Continue reading →Expected Site Outage
I’m switching the domain over to Hover. So far the transition has gone swimmingly but I’m informed the site may go dark for a bit while the final tubes are reconnected. If MacSparky goes dark for you in the next day or two, hang…
Continue reading →Book Recommendation: Typography for Lawyers
I’ve been a fan of Matthew Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers web site for some time. Recently, Matthew expanded on the subject and wrote a book. Having spent the last few weeks with it, I recommend it to any legal professionals (or anyone else that…
Continue reading →DropDAV, WebDAV for Dropbox
Dropbox just continues to get more useful every day. At this point, I believe it is mandatory for anybody who wants to get work done on an iPad. If Dropbox’s own developer API, letting you load and save documents to your Dropbox space from…
Continue reading →Timeline 3d, Version 3 Initial Impression and Interview
BEEDOCS has been hard at work and recently released version 3 of their stellar timeline application, Timeline 3d. This release makes building and using timelines even easier. For instance you can now publish an interactive timeline straight to the web (or YouTube), add movies…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – The Mother Lode
This week’s Service Sunday does not feature a particular workflow but instead points you at the mother load of pre-built Mac OS X services at Mac OS X Automation. This page includes download links for a host of handy services ranging from changing the…
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